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2023 | 9 | 1 | 1-15

Article title

On What Is Personally Appealing on Conceptual Relativism

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O tym, co jest osobiście atrakcyjne w relatywizmie pojęciowym

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Relatywizm pojęciowy nie jest atrakcyjnym stanowiskiem. Z pewnością ma swoje wzloty i upadki, ale wzloty są rzadko wspominane. Niniejszy artykuł nie ma ambicji dostarczenia zdecydowanego, przełomowego argumentu na rzecz realizmu pojęciowego. Jego celem jest jedynie zrekonstruowanie podstaw danego stanowiska z punktu widzenia oskarżonego, przy jednoczesnym nadaniu całemu tematowi nieco osobistego (lub egzystencjalnego, jeśli wolisz) akcentu. Element osobisty, o którym mowa, polega na tym, że istnieją niewspółmierne percepcje, doświadczenia, a nawet światy, które wszystkie "czują się" równie realne dla podmiotów. Jest to coś, czemu realizm nie wydaje się być w stanie oddać sprawiedliwości bez umniejszania ontologicznego statusu "błędnych" opinii, przekonań itp., ale nie wydaje się to dobrze współgrać z tym, jak doświadczamy naszej "niedoskonałej" rzeczywistości. Relatywiści pojęciowi są jednak wolni od ścisłego rozróżniania między poprawnymi i niepoprawnymi poglądami na rzeczywistość, a tym samym są w stanie, jeśli nie nic innego, zachować i docenić rzeczywistość naszych subiektywnych światów.
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Conceptual relativism is not an attractive position. Surely, it has its ups and downs, but the ups are rarely mentioned. This article has no ambition to provide a resolute groundbreaking argument in favour of the conceptual realism. It only aims to reconstruct the very basis of the given position from the defendant’s point of view, while giving a bit of a personal (or existential if you will) touch to the whole topic.The personal element in question resides in the fact that there are incommensurable percepts, experiences, even worlds which all “feel” equally real to the subjects. This is something to what realism does not seem to be able to do justice without diminishing the ontological status of the “wrong” opinions, beliefs, etc., but this does not seem to go well with how we experience our “imperfect” realities. Conceptual relativists, however, are free from strictly distinguishing between correct and incorrect views on reality and, thus, they are able, if nothing else, to retain and appreciate the reality of our subjective worlds.

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9

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1

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1-15

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published
2023

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  • St. Elizabeth University of Health and Social Work in Bratislava

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Publication order reference

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Biblioteka Nauki
29433412

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bwmeta1.element.ojs-doi-10_31261_PaCL_2023_09_1_02
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